gwp

SkekTek wrote:And it looks like the local bunnies can't get in either. Unfortunately, we got tons of the furry thieves.

The bunny can get in just fine, as can the moles, but the deer family that jumped over the former 4' tall fence now has 7' to scale. They pruned my entire garden to about 14" tall last year. All the pepper and tomato plants, ate all the snowpeas. The bunnies couldn't possibly wreak that much havoc.

SkekTek

gwp wrote:The bunny can get in just fine, as can the moles, but the deer family that jumped over the former 4' tall fence now has 7' to scale. They pruned my entire garden to about 14" tall last year. All the pepper and tomato plants, ate all the snowpeas. The bunnies couldn't possibly wreak that much havoc.

Agh... we got moles in our back yard. Wish I could get rid of them, but haven't found anything short of calling in a hired gun.

gwp

SkekTek wrote:Agh... we got moles in our back yard. Wish I could get rid of them, but haven't found anything short of calling in a hired gun.

Bunnies are at least cute.

The last time I talked about mole remedies here, I offended a fellow wooter who holds strong feelings concerning animal welfare. I don't wish to intentionally commit that same offense again.

However, I have a dozen (never before used -- they came with the house...) mechanical devices that are advertised to ruin a mole's day quickly and primarily painlessly (at least for me...) I may give one a try later this summer and see if they work at all. Kind of a mole-tunnel version of a mousetrap. (But with more spikey things...)

SkekTek

pooflady wrote:Husband's been fighting moles here for 37 years now. Every year I hear, "We've got moles where we've never had them before." Considering we only have a half acre....

He does use in the mechanical traps in the hopes of at least wounding one and maybe it will die. The best method is to be out in the yard about 6 in the morning with a shovel or a pitchfork.

We don't have runs that show, we just have large humps of dirt that, of course, then makes the yard look like heck.

We have runs, since we have areas of no grass back where the leaves collect in the winter and are removed in the spring. Try to get grass there, but never works. Get great likes of mole tunnels though.

We have very sandy soil, and haven't gotten a mole with those traps yet. Plus, I think hurting/killing one would be a drop in the bucket.

pooflady

SkekTek wrote:We have runs, since we have areas of no grass back where the leaves collect in the winter and are removed in the spring. Try to get grass there, but never works. Get great likes of mole tunnels though.

We have very sandy soil, and haven't gotten a mole with those traps yet. Plus, I think hurting/killing one would be a drop in the bucket.

AttilaTheMom

There is now a forsythia to one side, and the daylilies on the other look good. We got pounded with rain and I lost the last of the blossoms so now it looks kinda sad. I just put in a pair of wine and roses weigelia on the west side of the house, where I hope they survive and get huge.

pooflady

There is now a forsythia to one side, and the daylilies on the other look good. We got pounded with rain and I lost the last of the blossoms so now it looks kinda sad. I just put in a pair of wine and roses weigelia on the west side of the house, where I hope they survive and get huge.

AttilaTheMom

it looked even better before it got hit with a tornado or wind sheer or whatever took down a couple of the big limbs on one side. they think we had a small tornado bounce over the village without touching down because we had a lot of damaged trees and roofs. anyways, the tree is a really big ooooold maple and i have 4 more like it plus a large white ash tree.

gwp

killingtime wrote:I don't know if I should spoil GWP's party by mentioning that it will take 3 years until the asparagus is big enough to eat...and even then...you get very few...barely enough to feed one.

I knew that. They say you can harvest off the same plants for 15 years though. I planted three rows of 5 feet each (about 50 or 60 plants), so I'll get one or two nice meals per year starting in 2011.

I also planted garlic and a few other perennial vegetables and herbs in that garden, as I don't till it up each year.

KtCallista

dontwantaname wrote:[quote postid="2397419" user="pooflady"]Our tomatoes. Husband happened to see flash of red the other day. One bright red tomato. None of the others have started to turn at all. It was delicious.

What the heck? Those are huge plants.

Those are tomatos! Dang girl. I just looked to see if the picture was there, I didn't read anything! Our garden got taken out by snow. . . I didn't replant, probably shoulda.

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